You Get Just Three Hours to Make 500 Dollars a Year on a Single Site!Thread-of-the-Month nominee: "...we had a contest here, and everyone had exactly three hours and no more to start a website from scratch. Buy a new domain, put up a CMS, add some content pages, get some links, and monetize it. Could you do it and make 500 a year..." (-subscription required)

You Bought The Book So It Belongs To You. Right?"This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a certain famous author had mysteriously disappeared from their e-book readers. These were books that they had bought and paid for-thought they owned."

Yelp Responds To Senate Committee Over Google Antitrust HearingWe have responded to these requests and told officials that we believe Google has acted anti-competitively in at least two key ways: by misusing Yelp review content in their competing Places product and by favoring their own competing Places product in search results.

Yandex To Partner With Google in Selling Display Advertising Inventory"Through Google's subsidiary DoubleClick, the company's advertising clients will now have access to one of Russia's largest advertising inventories offered by publishers in Yandex's Advertising Network, while the advertising clients of Yandex will be able to bid for ad displays in the global inventory of DoubleClick AdExchange partners."

Yandex Roars From Russia With Possible $9B US IPO!Russia's largest Internet company Yandex LLC has been given a preliminary valuation of between $6 billion and $9 billion ahead of its initial public offering on the U.S.'s Nasdaq exchange, a person familiar with the company's plans said Friday.[br][br]Yandex has a 65% share of Russia's Internet search market, which is one of the few countries in Europe not dominated by Google. Yandex also operates in the Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

Yandex Invests $15 Million In Blekko, and $15 Million From OthersYandex, the most popular search engine in Russia, is expressing its affinity with a $15 million investment in Blekko and a commitment to share some of its computing power and other technology with its new U.S. partner. Blekko is getting an additional $15 million from another group consisting mostly of its earlier investors, U.S. Venture Partners, CMEA Capital and PivotNorth Capital.

Yandex Introduces Interactive Snippets "Islands" To SERPs"Importantly though, the launch of Islands does not mean Yandex will decide what information appears on the search page; that will be determined by the website owner who will be able to choose whether he or she wants to include interactive snippets, and if so, what they should look like. Yandex has also been working with a number of web developers to create the toolset."

Yahoo: "Will Continue To Be In Search""That is the stake we have put in the ground. We will continue to show innovation and drive lots of great features and products into the marketplace and wow our users,"

Yahoo, Comcast Sign Online-Ads Agreement"Yahoo Inc. plans to sell online-video and display ads for the Web portal of Comcast Corp., the country's largest pay-television provider, under a multiyear partnership announced Monday."

Yahoo's latest results disappoint"Shares in Yahoo fell 12% in after-hours trading on Tuesday, after its results failed to meet market expectations... ...Computer sector analysts said the results were disappointing and would more than likely have a negative knock-on effect on the wider internet sector."

Yahoo's Zimbra Goes For 'Cloud Computing'"Yahoo's Zimbra, the provider of a communications and collaboration suite that rivals Microsoft's Office and Outlook/Exchange, will make its cloud computing debut on Tuesday."